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14-letter words containing p, r, i, e

  • prime minister — the principal minister and head of government in parliamentary systems; chief of the cabinet or ministry: the British prime minister.
  • prime the pump — an apparatus or machine for raising, driving, exhausting, or compressing fluids or gases by means of a piston, plunger, or set of rotating vanes.
  • prime vertical — the great circle passing through the observer's zenith and meeting the horizon due east and west
  • primenet, inc. — Arizona's Internet provider.
  • primitive cell — a unit cell containing no points of the lattice except at the corners of the cell.
  • prince consort — a prince who is the husband of a reigning female sovereign.
  • princess royal — the eldest daughter of a king or queen.
  • principal type — The most general type of an expression. For example, the following are all valid types for the lambda abstraction (\ x . x): Int -> Int Bool -> Bool (a->b) -> (a->b) but any valid type will be an instance of the principal type: a -> a. An instance is derived by substituting the same type expression for all occurences of some type variable. The principal type of an expression can be computed from those of its subexpressions by Robinson's unification algorithm.
  • principalities — a state ruled by a prince, usually a relatively small state or a state that falls within a larger state such as an empire.
  • print reporter — a reporter who works for a newspaper or magazine
  • printed matter — any of various kinds of printed material that qualifies for a special postal rate.
  • printer's mark — a stamp or device, usually found on the copyright page, that identifies a book as the work of a particular printer.
  • printer's ream — a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
  • printing error — a misprint or misspelling in a text
  • printing frame — a shallow, boxlike device with a glass plate on one side and an opaque, removable back, for holding a negative firmly against printing paper in contact printing.
  • printing house — a company engaged in the business of producing printed matter
  • printing paper — sensitized paper for printing positives.
  • printing press — a machine, as a cylinder press or rotary press, for printing on paper or the like from type, plates, etc.
  • printout paper — sensitized paper for prints that darkens under light and requires treatment to fix an image: largely supplanted at the turn of the century by developing-out paper. Abbreviation: P.O.P.
  • priority guest — A priority guest at a hotel is a regular guest who has special rights, such as early check-in and discounts on food.
  • priority queue — (programming)   A data structure with three operations: insert a new item, return the highest priority item, and remove the highest priority item. The obvious way to represent priority queues is by maintaining a sorted list but this can make the insert operation very slow. Greater efficiency can be achieved by using heaps.
  • pripet marshes — the largest swamp in Europe, occupying S Belarus and N Ukraine
  • prison officer — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
  • private equity — equity in a business that is raised from private sources, as opposed to shares that can be traded publicly
  • private income — econ: from outside employment
  • private member — (sometimes lowercase) British. a member of a legislative body, especially of the House of Commons, who has no special duties and is not a member of the ministry.
  • private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
  • private sector — the area of the nation's economy under private rather than governmental control.
  • private treaty — a property sale based on terms resulting from a conference between buyer and seller.
  • pro-censorship — the act or practice of censoring.
  • pro-euthanasia — Also called mercy killing. the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition.
  • pro-revolution — an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.
  • proactiveness' — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • procaine amide — a white, crystalline compound, C 1 3 H 2 1 ON 3 , used in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.
  • proceleusmatic — inciting, animating, or inspiring.
  • processability — capable of being processed.
  • processing tax — a tax levied by the government at an intermediate stage in the production of goods.
  • processor time — (software)   The amount of time a process takes to run, given that it has exclusive and uninterrupted use of the CPU. Note that in a modern computer, this would be very unusual, and so the processor time calculation for most processes involves adding up all the small amounts of time the CPU actually spends on the process. Some systems break processor time down into user time and system time. Compare wall clock time.
  • procrastinated — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • productivities — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
  • professionally — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
  • profit squeeze — a sharp narrowing of the gap between cost and revenue.
  • profit-seeking — attempting to make a profit or financial gains
  • progametangium — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
  • progenitorship — parenthood; the position of being a progenitor
  • progestational — prepared for pregnancy, as the lining of the uterus prior to menstruation or in the early stages of gestation itself; progravid.
  • progressionary — relating to progression
  • progressionism — a person who believes in progress, as of humankind or society.
  • progressionist — a person who believes in progress, as of humankind or society.
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